"When I tell my daughter stories at night, inevitably, a few things happen," Davis said in her acceptance speech. "Number one, I use my imagination. I always start with life, and then I build from there. And then the other thing that happens is, she always says, 'Mommy, can you put me in the story?' And you know, it starts from the top up."

To much applause, she then thanked the team behind How to Get Away With Murder "for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me."

"Thank you to all the people who love me exactly how God made me," Davis added.